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Date:      Fri, 26 Jun 1998 09:06:22 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD faster than light?
Message-ID:  <19980626090622.X356@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980625125431.A28673@numachi.com>; from Brian Reichert on Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 12:54:32PM -0400
References:  <19980624165018.H5023@freebie.lemis.com> <199806250711.JAA00732@semyam.dinoco.de> <19980625125431.A28673@numachi.com>

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On Thursday, 25 June 1998 at 12:54:32 -0400, Brian Reichert wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 09:11:28AM +0200, Stefan Eggers wrote:
>> I am using bash 2.0.x on FreeBSD 2.2-stable from last weekend for
>> this.  It can't even decide how long it wants to take!
>>
>> As I thought it might be an effect of running multi user with alot of
>> daemons I did it again single user and the result was the same.  I
>> found no pattern in it.
>>
>> Funny.  I now can't get it to take long again.  And once it used no
>> user time at all.  The latter at least one can explain.  Some time
>> inaccuracy due to rounding somewhere.  But what in hades causes the
>> additional second?
>
> If I had to guess, this might have to be that on the first pass,
> a shared library had to be loaded, and on the second pass, it was
> already present, hence things were quicker...

In my example, it was repeatable.  I can't repeat it any more, though.

Greg
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